Sorry to hear that. I sympathize with folks whose dogs freak out from the noise. It's got to be traumatic just to have to choose between a canine nervous breakdown and drugging your mutt. Ours handles it well unless she knows we're the ones setting the fireworks off (then she wants to "save" us).
We had fondue, it was awesome..It was bought in France, Swiss cheese though, since all was dead and closed in our hood. We were at friends' and had white wine with it, pickles and other pickled stuff from Migors, that was lovely. Even toddlers ate it. And fruit salad and raspberry BABOVKA (a Czech version of a pound cake) I made for desert.
My dear Sada, what's so hard to believe? I would have been doing it in Suisse, had it been at all possible (and I continue working on that). But for now, that seems like the least I can do to enjoy my Swiss roots.